Kuji (Iwate)

Kuji City Hall
Kuji-shi ; 久慈市
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Tōhoku
Prefecture :	Iwate
Coordinates :	40 ° 11 ' N , 141 ° 47' E Coordinates: 40 ° 11 '26 " N , 141 ° 46' 32" E
Basic data
Surface:	633.14 km²
Residents :	33,556 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	03207-7
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	ginkgo
Flower :	azalea
town hall
Address :	Kuji City Hall ; 1 - 1 , Kawaki-chō; Kuji shi ; Iwate 028-8030
Website URL:	http://www.city.kuji.iwate.jp
Location Kujis in Iwate Prefecture

Kuji ( Japanese 久慈市 , - shi ) is a city in Iwate Prefecture on Honshū , the main island of Japan .

The city is known for its rich amber ( kuji amber ) deposits. In the community there is the amber museum Kuji ( 琥珀博物館 , Kuji Hakubutsukan ), the only museum of its kind in Japan.

history

The city of Kuji became on November 3, 1954 from the former small towns ( chō ) Kuji ( 久慈町 , -chō ) and Osauchi ( 長内町 , -chō ), as well as the villages ( mura ) Okawame ( 大川目村 , -mura ) , Natsui ( 夏井村 , -mura ), Samuraihama ( 侍浜村 , -mura ), Ube ( 宇部村 , -mura ) and Yamane ( 山根村 , -mura ) of Kunohe County.

Earthquake and tsunami disasters

Comparison of the balance sheets of completely destroyed houses and victims in Kuji for the disasters of 1896, 1933, 1960 and 2011
Disaster event	Completely destroyed houses	Death toll
Meiji 1896 (earthquake and tsunami)	180	494
Shōwa 1933 (earthquake and tsunami)	117	27
Chile 1960 (earthquake and tsunami)	1	0
Tōhoku 2011 (earthquake and tsunami)	65	5
Note: The death toll for the 2011 Tōhoku disaster is calculated from the total number of dead and missing in the 153rd FDMA damage report of March 8, 2016, minus the figures for catastrophe-related deaths determined by the Reconstruction Agency (RA).

The natural disaster of the Tōhoku earthquake on March 11, 2011 with the subsequent tsunami left 4 dead and 2 missing in Kuji. 65 residential buildings were completely destroyed and 213 others partially destroyed.

geography

Kuji is north of Morioka and south of Hachinohe on the Pacific .

traffic

Train:
- JR Hachinohe Line
Street:
- National road 45,281,395

Town twinning

Lithuania Klaipėda , Lithuania
United States Franklin , Indiana , USA

Web links

Commons : Kuji - collection of images, videos and audio files

岩手県地震・津波シミュレーション及び被害想定調査 (overview of earthquake / tsunami simulation and damage prognosis for Iwate): 岩手県津波浸水予測図（久慈市 die for the city of Kuwait inundate forecast (tsunami inundate forecast ) www2.pref.iwate.jp (Iwate Prefecture). A print version with further information is available as: 岩手県地震・津波シミュレーション及び被害想定調査に関する報告書（概要版） ( Memento from June 28, 2018 on WebCite ) (PDF) (岩手ww2.pref.iwate ) (PDF), w 岩手ww2.pref.iwate ), November 2004 (revised: February 2006).

The tsunami hazard map with its tsunami flood information is based on three tsunami simulations (1st historical Meiji-Sanriku tsunami, 2nd historical Showa-Sanriku tsunami and 3rd predicted Miyagi-Oki earthquake tsunami). The map of the Kokudo Chiriin (国土地理院, Geographical Survey Institute = GSI) has been created on a scale of 1: 25000 and is intended for printing on A3 paper . The damage prediction study was carried out by Iwate Prefecture in 2003 and 2004.

10 万分 1 浸水範囲概況図 , 国土地理院 ( Kokudo Chiriin , Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, formerly: Geographical Survey Institute = GSI), www.gsi.go.jp: 地理院ホーム> 防災関連> 平成 23 年（2011年）東北地方太平洋沖地震に関する情報提供> 10 万分 1 浸水範囲概況図:

The GSI published here a map with Kuji ( 浸水範囲概況図4 ) on which the 2011 flooded areas are drawn on the basis of reports of aerial photographs and satellite images from the Tōhoku tsunami, as far as was possible.

Individual evidence

^ Kuji Amber Museum. JETRO, accessed April 19, 2015 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Tadashi Nakasu, Yuichi Ono, Wiraporn Pothisiri: Why did Rikuzentakata have a high death toll in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami disaster? Finding the devastating disaster's root causes . In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction . tape 27 , 2018, p. 21-36 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ijdrr.2017.08.001 . (Published online August 15, 2017). With reference to: Tadashi Nakasu, Yuichi Ono, Wiraporn Pothisiri: Forensic investigation of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami disaster: a case study of Rikuzentakata , Disaster Prevention and Management, 26 (3) (2017), pp. 298-313 , DOI: 10.1108 / DPM-10-2016-0213 .
↑ 平成 23 年 (2011 年) 東北地方太平洋沖地震（東日本大震災）について (第 157 報) ( Memento of March 18, 2018 on WebCite ) ( PDF ( Memento of March 18, 2018 on WebCite )), 総務省消防庁 (Fire and Disaster Management Agency), 157th report, March 7, 2018.
^ About Franklin. www.franklin-in.gov, archived from the original on January 25, 2016 ; accessed on August 12, 2016 .

Remarks

↑ With the expression "disaster-related deaths" the Reconstruction Agency officially defined a category for cases in which death was the result of indirect damage caused by earthquakes, tsunami and nuclear disasters. (Source: Haruka Toda, Shuhei Nomura, Stuart Gilmour, Masaharu Tsubokura, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Kiwon Lee, Grace Y. Kiyabu, Kenji Shibuya: Assessment of medium-term cardiovascular disease risk after Japan's 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident: a retrospective analysis . In : BMJ Open . Band 7 , no. December 12 , 2017, p. 1–9 , doi : 10.1136 / bmjopen-2017-018502 . (Published online December 22, 2017); License: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0).)

[1] Kuji Amber Museum. JETRO, accessed April 19, 2015 .

[NakasuEtAl2018_IJDRR_27_pp21-36_NakasuEtAl2017-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Tadashi Nakasu, Yuichi Ono, Wiraporn Pothisiri: Why did Rikuzentakata have a high death toll in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami disaster? Finding the devastating disaster's root causes . In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction . tape 27 , 2018, p. 21-36 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ijdrr.2017.08.001 . (Published online August 15, 2017). With reference to: Tadashi Nakasu, Yuichi Ono, Wiraporn Pothisiri: Forensic investigation of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami disaster: a case study of Rikuzentakata , Disaster Prevention and Management, 26 (3) (2017), pp. 298-313 , DOI: 10.1108 / DPM-10-2016-0213 .

[FDMA_2018-03-07-4] 平成 23 年 (2011 年) 東北地方太平洋沖地震（東日本大震災）について (第 157 報) ( Memento of March 18, 2018 on WebCite ) ( PDF ( Memento of March 18, 2018 on WebCite )), 総務省消防庁 (Fire and Disaster Management Agency), 157th report, March 7, 2018.

[about-5] About Franklin. www.franklin-in.gov, archived from the original on January 25, 2016 ; accessed on August 12, 2016 .

[A1_RA-disaster-related_deaths-3] With the expression "disaster-related deaths" the Reconstruction Agency officially defined a category for cases in which death was the result of indirect damage caused by earthquakes, tsunami and nuclear disasters. (Source: Haruka Toda, Shuhei Nomura, Stuart Gilmour, Masaharu Tsubokura, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Kiwon Lee, Grace Y. Kiyabu, Kenji Shibuya: Assessment of medium-term cardiovascular disease risk after Japan's 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident: a retrospective analysis . In : BMJ Open . Band 7 , no. December 12 , 2017, p. 1–9 , doi : 10.1136 / bmjopen-2017-018502 . (Published online December 22, 2017); License: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0).)